Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-24
rHE MANCHESTER nrARrYRs.
DIR. McGlynn Throws Discord Ante
the Memorial Meeting at New York.

| DIR. NIeGlynn Throws Discord Ante
the Memorial Meeting at New York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-The twentieth an
niyersary of the execution of the Manchester
martyrs was celebrated in the large hall OF
Cooper Institute this evening. There were
| fully twenty thousand men and women pres
| ent. Patrick Sars6eld Cassidy presided
| The meeting was not as harmonious as had
| been expected for on more than one occasion
| the speakers were Missed. The labor ques-
ton caused the first ill-feelings. The speakers
all took occasion to show their Partially
for Henry Georges theories and at one time
it looked IS though small riot might result.
This was when Richard Caffery denounced
in the most heated terms the Irishmen who
had sold their countrymen at the election.
He singled out Patrick Ford for special de-
nomination and became SO bitter as to pro-
woke protests from many in the audience.
Several of those who protested were prompt
ly put out and company of the Sixty-ninth
regiment arose and left the place. The con-
fusion lasted several minutes. The other
cause of dissension was DR.. McGlynn. The
chairman in Introducing the doctor said he was
in no wise responsible for the doctors theo-
logical opinions and said he would introduce
him not as a clergyman, but as an Irishman.
DR.. McGlynn spoke for over an hour. In the
course of his remarks he said: ''I plead gull
ty to the implied charge of being a clergy
man and also to the charge of being an
Irishman, one born out of his native coun-
try. My parents were from the mountains
a~,I -
foreign 1anguages But not here anywhere
else will I say anything unbecoming my
priesthood. I am not a Fenian, but re-
member how twenty-five years ago young
priests had to argue with the older theolo-
gians to prevent the church from declaring
against the brotherhood. And the same
theologians who opposed the Fenians were
opposed to the American abolitionist. This
night year ago I was in this hall but not on
this platform and now 1 will tell you
why. I was in the audience with
James Redpath. There were calls for US to
on the platform. We started toward the
committee room to go there, but instead
to go on the platform, for a man
five thousand miles away four or five
years ago had sent word to have that
priest McGlynn forbidden to attend such a
meeting. l had been suspended before for
speaking the truth about the accursed land
lords and if had gone on the platform then
next day should have been suspended again
by man in a marble palace a mile or 30
away who has like myself an Irish name.
letter would have come from Rome saying,
''Ho, no, this priest McGlynn has been
at it again." and 1 would have
been instructed that must
not express sympathy for those
who died that Ireland might be free. 1 say
these things to show that suppressed my
self and in all possible ways submitted my
self to authority. But while it may
be right to keep silent it is not right to
retract the truth once spoken. refused
to do this and then thank God was eman-
cipated." The doctor then declared the
righteousness of the doctrine of land reform
and called upon Irishmen TO assert their
natural rights to associate and even
to plot for liberty. He further besought
them to pay no attention to theologians in
matters of politics and 10 inform the
Roman authorities that they had no bust
ness with any such matters. The doctor
also denounced Gladstoue's scheme for an
Irish parliament rs mere rot and said they
wanted no house of lords for ireland, but
only pure democracy and an Independent
nation. The way McGlynn referred to
the Pope and Archbishop Corrigan caused
marked dissatisfaction, but the cheers gen
orally drowned the Kisses and at the close he
was heartily applauded. Ex-Congressman
William E. Robinson, John Mackin and 9TH
ers followed.